I just got rejected from MIT and I was curious if I should take this rejection as a sign of future rejections, (i.e. Brown, Stanford, Columbia). Any thoughts?
<p>I’m not an adcom, but I do know that each school looks for individuals who will add to their student body (through academics, the arts, and athletics). I doubt that an Adcom at Brown will phone up another at MIT and then reject you solely based on MIT’s decision to deny you admission. That said, the schools that you’ve listed do have in common the expectance of high academic standards - but if you feel that will not be the factor that adversely affects your application, don’t worry. Good luck - April is almost here!</p>
<p>depends on a TON of things…but what jumps to my mind is math v verbal. If you’re a humanities person and your strength is verbal, english, history etc. then I’d say the MIT reject is insignificant. The three schools you mention tilt towards those strong in humanities. My opinion, of course.</p>
<p>MIT probably likes engineering people more than Brown and Columbia, and also, MIT is just nuts</p>
<p>If you would share your stats we could turn this into a ‘what are my chances’ thread</p>
<p>no that’s alright… I’m attempting to wean myself off of this terrible, depressing website, (so far it’s not going well)… I was just wondering if there was some sort of trend… Thanks</p>
<p>Without your stats and intended major, this is going nowhere.</p>
<p>no need to get angry joe…
I was just wondering in general</p>
<p>You should not assume disaster based on one decision. Large numbers of persons who are accepted to one of the schools you list get rejected by the others you list or comparable colleges. Just reports on this sitte from prior years show that there are many who got rejected by Harvard (or fill in any other name) and accepted by Yale (or another) and vice versa; in fact I remember seeing numerous posts with such surprises like “Harvard accepted me but Brown and Penn didn’t.” Each college is making an individual decision and none is going to know you were rejected elsewhere when its makes its own decision.</p>
<p>keep your hope!</p>
<p>I know multiple people (both personally and from CC) who have been accepted to Stanford EA, but rejected/waitlisted from MIT. Presumably this goes for other schools as well.</p>
<p>So I doubt it.</p>
<p>Don’t worry. I was rejected by MIT but admitted to Stanford. MIT admissions is hardcore. You seriously need to have some research/olympiad/RSI/etc. experience if you wanna have a good chance. That’s not true of the other schools you mentioned.</p>
<p>idk not true paul, if you go over to the MIT board and look at the kids who are gettin in, MIT is rejecting some top notch kids and accepting some relatively mediocre applicants…relative(for MIT apps) is the key term there. MY impression is that they draw names out of a hat. But they are smart up in Boston, im sure they came up with some fancy algorithm to randomly pick applicants to accept. After all, drawing names out of a hat is so cliche.</p>
<p>Rejected!</p>
<p>3.5, 1350, 770, 740, 620</p>
<p>I applied for fun!</p>
<p>I was rejected:
4.17 GPA (weighted) 3.95 UW, 1520 (800 Verbal/ 720 Math), 780 Math IIC, 750 Writing, 700 US History, 34 ACT</p>
<p>scuba - I think MIT weighs the recommendations, personal stuff and others much more than just your scores and research. I got in with no research, less than 1500, not perfect SAT2s, less than 3.9 GPA (if including freshman year). But I am first generation and I got amazing recommendations as well as a good essay. </p>
<p>Paul - MIT is hardcore… but crazy research is not needed. = )</p>
<p>By the way… just to show that OP that there is hope, I was deferred by Stanford EA…</p>
<p>I got rejected from MIT… here are my stats:</p>
<p>800 M/750 V SAT I
800 IIC/780 m. bio/740 writing SAT II
BC calc 5, Bio 5, US Govt 4, Eng Lit 3
Rank 1/430<br>
high school in Fort Wayne, IN</p>
<p>not really sure, my stats are above average for MIT and my recommendations were stellar, I read them. I’m an Indian male (not Native American), which could not have helped me. my essay was decent and I have research experience as well. oh well, still waiting on Harvard and Princeton, we’ll see how those go.</p>
<p>MIT only accepted 14% of its applicants this year. According to the blog, the applicant pool was very, very competitive.</p>
<p>You probably have some great stats if you applied to MIT. Every admissions office is looking for a different candidate, often to diversify their school. Who knows, for one of the schools, you could be exactly the person they need to round out the class and for another, you could look like many other applicants. One rejection doesn’t mean you won’t get accepted to other schools, even better ones.</p>
<p>Oh and neilsshah, your stats are great, don’t give up hope.</p>
<p>1600 800x3 4.0 gets rejected. I’m not lying.</p>
<p>I remember getting goosebumps after seeing a Princeton applicant with stellar academic record and decent EC’s with being a USAMO qualifier getting deferred. he was a legacy as well!!</p>